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My Weekend in Hattusa
I spent the better part of Sunday and Monday working through Billie Jean Collins’ The Hittites and Their World, (Archaeology and Biblical Studies 7; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007). The...
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Musing on Sacral Kinship in Ancient Israel
Last night I was reading James C. Moyer’s 1969 Brandeis dissertation, “The Concept of Ritual Purity among the Hittites.” While I’ve had this book on my shelf for several years and found his definitions...
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Oymaağaç = Nerik?
Duane Smith has an abnormally interesting post on 2008 Excavations at Oymaağaç in Turkey. While Duane laments the brevity of information currently available, the news coming out indicates that the...
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Upcoming Lecture on the Trojans
There’s an interesting lecture occuring on Jan 6th at the Penn Museum as part of it;s Great Sites Lecture Series: The Trojan War — Myth or Fact? Recent Excavations at Troy. Dr. C. Brian Rose, deputy...
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Book Sadness
I’ve been watching the books come through Eisenbrauns’ used books with idle curiosity. The windfall consisted mostly of Assyriological works; and the few Northwest Semitic titles I had seen were all...
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Depictions of the Dead
Mesopotamian depictions of the Netherworld describe its dead with bird imagery. This conceptualization has confused some of my students. Indeed, it seems to confuse some of the scholars as well. As an...
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Heap of Hittite Helps
A great Hittite resource—complete with access to Luwian Hieroglyph fonts! (Sorry for the German) Hethitologie Portal Mainz Ein Projekt der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz...
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